General regularities in the failure kinetics of steel of main gas pipelines (17GS) are established using the method of complete stress-strain curves, meanwhile in-service degradation of metals is taken into account. The influence of material degradation on material properties under static tensioning is considered using two independent approaches: the phenomenological model of damage accumulation in metals, and the fractographic analysis method. The accumulation of in-service damage is found to increase a degree of material opening and lead to partial “embrittlement” of the steel matrix due to the microdefects accumulation in the vicinity of metal cracking caused by hydrogenation.
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Published on 01/01/2014
Volume 2014, 2014
DOI: 10.1063/1.4898966
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license
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